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AL: Do you know, did your parents ever talk about, as Manzanar was getting more well-known, then, of course, there was the Commission hearings and redress, and when people started talking about the camps as a civil liberties, civil rights issue. Did your parents ever have any political involvement with anything about preserving the camps, talking about the camps?

YN: I don't recall that.

AL: Did they ever talk about how they felt about redress?

YN: Never, no.

AL: They didn't use their redress money to buy a second car for your mom or anything? [Laughs] Do you know how they used their redress money?

YN: My dad used his to buy... he traded in his car and he bought a new car. My mother invested it and said that my sister and I would get redress, and my brother and younger sister would not. They were not in camp, they were not entitled to it, but she felt that they should get some money, too, so she invested that and they inherited that when she died.

AL: And then you and your older sister got your own, right?

YN: Yes, eventually we each had our... I don't know what my sister did with hers.

AL: Can I ask what you did with yours?

YN: I remodeled my kitchen. [Laughs]

AL: What did it feel like to get the letter, the redress letter? You got a letter of apology?

YN: I did get a letter of apology, signed by George Bush.

AL: What was that like for you?

YN: I didn't feel, have the same kind of feeling, being a baby and not knowing what it was like there, what kind of hardships, just knowing what my family had to give up, being interned. But it didn't have the same, it didn't have the same meaning to me.

AL: What about for your husband, since he was a little bit older?

YN: Oh, goodness. I don't know. He really wasn't in that. I think that we felt not so much in favor of redress as for maybe an educational fund or something less personal but more... to spread the story.

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